26 Facts About Paul Golding

Paul Golding was born on January 1982 and is a British far-right political leader who is currently the leader of Britain First.

In December 2016, Golding was sentenced to eight weeks imprisonment for breaching a court order banning him from entering a mosque or encouraging others to do so in England and Wales.

Paul Golding took six months leave from the party and Jayda Fransen, the deputy leader, acted as leader during his absence.

Paul Golding was a British National Party Sevenoaks District councillor for St Mary's Ward in Swanley from 2009 to 2011.

In 2008, it was reported that Paul Golding had been expelled from the BNP for physically attacking Lawrence Rustem, a BNP Barking Borough Council councillor who is half-Turkish.

Paul Golding had been a member of the neo-Nazi National Front and once attended a Cenotaph on Remembrance Sunday wearing women's underwear on his head.

In May 2015, Paul Golding threatened to bury a pig at the site of proposed mosque in Dudley, mistakenly believing this would contaminate the site and render it unsuitable.

Paul Golding stood as a candidate in the London mayoral election in 2016.

In December 2019, Paul Golding announced that he was a paid-up member of the Bexleyheath and Crayford Conservative Association.

Paul Golding explained that he intended to "help solidify Boris Johnson's control on the leadership, so we can achieve Brexit and hopefully cut immigration and confront radical Islam".

In June 2020, Paul Golding spoke at a far-right protest in central London.

In May 2014, Paul Golding was arrested for criminal damage and breach of the peace during an Al-Muhajiroun protest outside the Indian High Commission in London.

Paul Golding responded by calling the ASA a "toothless quango with no power which no one takes any notice of" and refused to change Britain First's logo.

In March 2015, he was arrested on suspicion of assault during a Britain First march in Derby, as was an opponent who Paul Golding had claimed assaulted him.

Also in 2015, Paul Golding was convicted of harassing a woman, after mistakenly arriving at her home instead of that of a man allegedly linked to the 2005 London bombings.

Paul Golding was found guilty of wearing a political uniform, an offence under the Public Order Act 1936.

In September 2017, Paul Golding and acting leader Jayda Fransen were arrested and charged with religious harassment.

In December 2016, Paul Golding was sentenced to eight weeks in prison for breaching a court order banning him from entering a mosque or encouraging others to do so in England and Wales.

Nine days after the imposition of the court injunction, Paul Golding drove others to a mosque in Cardiff; they entered and mosque members found their behaviour provocative and unnerving.

Fransen claimed that Paul Golding was taking 6 months leave as leader of the organisation "to address some important, personal family issues".

On 7 November 2017, Paul Golding was sentenced to a 120-day suspended prison sentence and ordered to carry out 200 hours of unpaid community work by Sevenoaks Magistrates' Court after admitting a charge of assault by beating.

In December 2017, on a reported visit to Belfast to support Jayda Fransen, Paul Golding was arrested by the Police Service of Northern Ireland for a speech he gave in the city in August, and was later charged.

On 7 March 2018, Fransen and Paul Golding were found guilty of religiously aggravated harassment at Folkestone Magistrates' Court, as a result of an investigation concerning the distribution of leaflets in 2017 in the Thanet and Canterbury areas.

In November 2018, Paul Golding was charged with a number of offences related to anti-immigration leaflets distributed in Ballymena, County Antrim, and was charged with three counts of publishing written material intended to stir up hatred and one count of using threatening, abusive, insulting words or behaviour.

In February 2020, Paul Golding was charged under the Terrorism Act for refusing to provide police at Heathrow Airport with the PIN codes for his phone and computer.

Paul Golding was stopped at Heathrow airport in October 2019, while returning from a trip to the Russian parliament, by officers from the Metropolitan Police's counter-terrorism command.